Posted on 02/07/2012 3:41:09 PM PST by Ron C.
This is a story about a young and impressionable female intern in the White House -- a virgin, with girlish dreams about princes and presidents. Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest or most powerful man on the block. When the prince comes calling, few young girls can resist this opportunity.
However, they are not the ones who are abusing power and betraying both youth and a wife. That would be the prince or president himself.
And no, I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky in the Clinton White House.
I am talking, sadly, about the recent revelations by a former intern, Mimi Alford, in the Kennedy White House. Alford is no Marilyn Monroe, who was reputedly the mistress of both John F. and Robert F. Kennedy. Nor, is she Judith Exner, who was reputedly the "Mata Hari" connection between President Kennedy and Sam Giancana, a Mafia operative. These were adult women who chose to use their sexuality to further their careers.
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Probably none of these things would have happened. The Democrats would not have won so big in 1964 if Kennedy had lived.although he probably would have been re-elected. The moon program is the most likely, because it was a “peaceful competition.” Did you know that men started talking about a trip to the moon around 1600? Kepler saw it as the logical extension of the great explorations that were underway.
1962, just a few months before Marilyn died. I watched with my Mom on our little black and white three channel portable TV in our home in NW Pa., equidistant between Buffalo and Cleveland. We were definitely in flyover country. Mom and I thought Marilyn’s performance was the most amazing thing. We noticed she must have been sewn in her dress before we learned about that later. We were pretty naive about JFK at the time. We thought he must have been embarrassed, and handled the situation well.
We watched the evening news as a family every night, even when we were very young. First John Cameron Swayze, then Huntley and Brinkley. When we got our first TV, NBC was our only channel. We needed rabbit ears for CBS once it became a available. ABC came along later.
Other than that, I remember that time much the same as you did. We had curfews and enforced quiet study hours. We needed a signed parental permission slip to even visit anyone in an apartment. There were suspensions and expulsions for violations. By 1968 everything changed on campus, but we still wouldn’t have been able to imagine what college is like now.
Special insiders who could get info hidden from the sucker voters! (JFK, that good Catholic man...)
A high school friend of mine worked in Senator Yarborough’s office near Kennedy’s. He kept noticing the parade of pretty girls and asked someone what was up? A senior colleague just looked at him and smiled knowingly .
A high school friend of mine worked in Senator Yarborough’s office near Kennedy’s. He kept noticing the parade of pretty girls and asked someone what was up? A senior colleague just looked at him and smiled knowingly .
Vaughn Meader (1936-2004)
Kennedy got us into Vietnam by botching the diplomacy in Laos. He invited the Russians into the mix. Dr. Tom Dooley, the medical missionary, wrote a book telling what happened.
The Urban Dictionary is your friend.
No so straightforward as all that. The rich are indeed not like us. Jack has the morals of the aristocratic class, many of whom are not cut out for monogamy.
It was Truman who sent the first "advisors" to aid the French in 1950.
The 19 year old has that clean cut, Breck girl look from that era.
Is there any proof of this? Can anyone make up any story and it is believed without any proof?
I....believe you might be in error, as it is impossible to catapult an F-16 from a carrier.
It has never happened. It would be akin to launching a DC-10, or a VW Bus from a carrier.
It sounds puzzling.
I read Dooley’s book many years ago and recall a part titled The Night They Burned the Mountain or some such. Dooley fell and broke a collar bone I think, and was found to have cancer.
I stand corrected. Thanks
To be honest they were twin engine jets, which makes old brains think Tomcat, but I really don’t remember the nomenclature. I looked quickly online, but I will find out from an old Chief that still communicates with me, tomorrow if I have time, he will remember exactly. I do remember that San MaGoo beer was 25 centavos. Pesos were 4 to the dollar, jitney rides were 10 centavos.
Thanks for not being obtuse with an old man. But to those that insist Kennedy did not start the war I just wonder. Who was that president that got shot while I was in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1963, when air strikes were plentiful. The C Turner Joy and the Maddox were the excuse for the Tonkin resolution, which escelated the police action big time, which partly explains why I left. Not a coward, just not totally stupid.
When JFK took office there were 500 advisors in Vietnam. When he died there were 16,000. Before Ike sent that handful of men, Truman was paying the French to do the fighting for us.
The important thing is that it was LBJ who sent half-a-million young men across the water, with 1 in 10 never coming back again. LBJ and that sick, rotting-in-hell scumbag McNamara. (spit) The one thing Nixon got right was getting us out of that mess, since the rats were determined that we couldn’t be allowed to win.
LBJ escalated the war with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution but JFK was CIC in 1963 and I was aboard a Tanker AO 62, refueling carriers that were launching aircraft as fast as they could during the unrep. They were dropping bombs as fast as they could, so what was that all about?
I left the Navy in 1965, flew out of Clark field back to the States and never looked back. Went to college were I learned how evil, so I don’t really need a history lesson from someone that doesn’t know it. My memories are often mixed, I have vivid memories of things that that never happened, or at least my wife of 40 years tells me that.
I do know for a fact where I was the day Kennedy got shot, we had steamed to an unrep rendevoux where our Captain hailed the Flag ship asking why their flag was at half mast, we were informed then that JFK had been shot.
I have stand corrected, but not better informed, by bettor memories.
Such is the way of FreeRepublic, search and destroy.
I will have a bettor day tomorrow, and try to contact and old friend that served with me. I likely will be better informed then because he stayed in until he was to old to continue.
Strange how memorie can be superimposed, I remember the sound of those twin jets so well, and all I can see is a Tomcat but they were never there.
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